Many people assume that e-book readers require only minimum processing power to render a basic text page, but this assumption is wrong. Displaying text may be easy, but displaying it quickly—at the speed of paper—requires high performance. To ensure the wide acceptance of e-readers, they must provide a user experience closer to that of reading a good-old paper book and to the experience that traditional consumer-electronics devices offer. Today's e-readers face these challenges: to be as quick as paper and as quick as LCD-based devices. High-performance microprocessors, such as those operating at 800 MHz on the ARM Cortex-A8 architecture, can enable better usability and new use scenarios for e-readers.
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